teachings of a dandelion
days of flower, gone.
seeds sail now,
parachuting out of the wind.
days of roots and buds follow,
days of flowers to come.
life goes on, now,
now forever,
forever now.
i listen,
and i let the wind take me
home.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
thunderstorms and life in May
days of flower, gone.
seeds sail now,
parachuting out of the wind.
days of roots and buds follow,
days of flowers to come.
life goes on, now,
now forever,
forever now.
i listen,
and i let the wind take me
home.
Roberto Bronco , Diving Deeper *k~kat chill café* The Smooth Loft
why not..'chill'..a bit, sometimes ok.
i do enjoy diving...this state of balance in space
merely by breathing, weightlessly floating..
Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity,quotes
"There is a world of difference between an inference and a feeling. You can reason that the universe is a unity without feeling it to be so. You can establish the theory that your body is a movement in an unbroken process which includes all suns and stars, and yet continue to feel separate and lonely. For the feeling will not correspond to the theory until you have also discovered the unity of inner experience. Despite all theories, you will feel that you are isolated from life so long as you are divided within.
But you will cease to feel isolated when you recognize, for example, that you do not have a sensation of the sky: you are that sensation. For all purposes of feeling, your sensation of the sky is the sky, and there is no “you” apart from what you sense, feel, and know."
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"The sense of unity with the “All” is not, however, a nebulous state of mind, a sort of trance, in which all form and distinction is abolished, as if man and the universe merged into a luminous mist of pale mauve. Just as process and form, energy and matter, myself and experience, are names for, and ways of looking at, the same thing — so one and many, unity and multiplicity, identity and difference, are not mutually exclusive opposites: they are each other, much as the body is its various organs. To discover that the many are the one, and that the one is the many, is to realize that both are words and noises representing what is at once obvious to sense and feeling, and an enigma to logic and description.
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When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, “I am all this.” There is simply “all this.” "
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"So long as the mind is split, life is perpetual conflict, tension, frustration, and disillusion. Suffering is piled on suffering, fear on fear, and boredom on boredom… But the undivided mind is free from this tension of trying always to stand outside oneself and to be elsewhere than here and now. Each moment is lived completely, and there is thus a sense of fulfillment and completeness.
[…]
When … you realize that you live in, that indeed you are this moment now, and no other, that apart from this there is no past and no future, you must relax and taste to the full, whether it be pleasure or pain. At once it becomes obvious why this universe exists, why conscious beings have been produced, why sensitive organs, why space, time, and change. The whole problem of justifying nature, of trying to make life mean something in terms of its future, disappears utterly. Obviously, it all exists for this moment. It is a dance, and when you are dancing you are not intent on getting somewhere… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance."
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